Word: puebla
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College boys frequently swear off smoking and drinking for indefinite periods, invent elaborate forfeits for backsliding. Generals of Armies, Presidents of Republics are seldom so ingenuous. Not so President of Mexico Emilio Fortes Gil and General Pedro J. Almada, Chief of Military Operations in the State of Puebla...
...banquet tendered President Fortes Gil in Puebla City last August upon the conclusion of the last revolution, the Chief Executive, who has high plans for making Mexico temperate, scanned the liberal wine list, then suggested to General Almada that they both swear off tobacco and liquor, that the first to fumar (smoke) should pay the winner 100 silver pesos ($50), the first to beber (drink) should pay 200 silver pesos ($100). General Almada manfully agreed...
...Francisco Perez, alleged to be the third assassin of the murdered Englishwoman, Mrs. Rosalie Evans (TIME, Aug. 11), was captured last week in the State of Puebla. He was taken to Puebla City for trial...
...Mexico City, President Calles hastened to quiet the British. Believing that a conciliatory attitude might do much to improve Anglo-Mexican relations, severely strained by the murder, he ordered the court at Puebla to hurry disposition of the prisoners. It was believed that appeal would be refused, that they were soon...
...with the Union Jack - Mrs. Evans was an American citizen by birth and a British subject by marriage. The Murderers. The Mexican Government ordered General Roberto Cruz to make every effort to apprehend the murderers. He gave the matter his personal attention. President Obregon sent his private secretary to Puebla to investigate the circumstances of the crime. Within 24 hours of receipt of instructions by General Cruz a number of arrests were made. Within another 48 hours Francisco Ruiz and Alejo Garcia confessed participation in the murder, but claimed that one Perez had committed the crime. Next day the round...